Raj Mashruwala

Affiliations

Professor

Haskayne School of Business, Accounting [ACCT]

Contact information

raj.mashruwala@haskayne.ucalgary.ca

Web presence

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Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-4332

Location

Office: SH234

For media enquiries, contact

Jamie Zachary
Senior Communications Specialist
jamie.zachary@ucalgary.ca

Preferred method of communication

raj.mashruwala@haskayne.ucalgary.ca

Background

Educational Background

PhD Accounting, University of Texas at Dallas, 2002

PGDM (MBA) S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, India, 1995

B.Engg. Mechanical Engineering, Gujarat University, India, 1991

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Raj is a Professor of Accounting and CPA Fellow in Management Accounting at the Haskayne School of Business. He holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas, and previously held faculty positions at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

His research bridges management and financial accounting, focusing on how firms manage costs and resources, supply-chain relationships, and performance. His work has appeared in leading journals including Contemporary Accounting Research, Production and Operations Management, and Review of Accounting Studies. He teaches management accounting across Haskayne's undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD programs.

Raj is an Editor at Contemporary Accounting Research and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Management Accounting Research and Advances in Management Accounting.

Research

Areas of Research

Managerial accounting; cost behaviour; performance measurement; and interorganizational relationships

Courses

Course number	Course title	Semester
ACCT 361 LEC 01 01	Cost Accounting	2020
ACCT 603 LEC 02 02	Management Accounting	2020
ACCT 661 LEC 01 01	Cost Accounting	2021
ACCT 661 LEC 02 02	Cost Accounting	2020
ACCT 361 LEC 02 02	Cost Accounting	2021

Publications

Cost Uniqueness and Information Uncertainty. M. Anderson, R. Mashruwala, Y. Wang, and R. Zhao. Contemporary Accounting Research. (2023)
Customer Bargaining Power, Strategic Fit, and Supplier Performance. H. Chang, S. Liu, and R. Mashruwala. Production and Operations Management. (2022)
Labor Adjustment Costs and Asymmetric Cost Behavior: An Extension. J. Golden, R. Mashruwala, and M. Pevzner. Management Accounting Research. (2020)
Supply Chain Relational Capital and the Bullwhip Effect. R. Zhao, R. Mashruwala, S. Pandit, and J. Balakrishnan.. International Journal of Operations and Production Management. (2019)
Technical Inefficiency, Allocative Inefficiency, and Audit Pricing. H. Chang, Y. Kao, R. Mashruwala, and S. Sorensen. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. (2018)
The Impact of the Bullwhip Effect on Sales and Earnings Prediction Using Order Backlog. H. Chang, J. Chen, S. Hsu, and R. Mashruwala. Contemporary Accounting Research. (2018)
Culture and Cost Stickiness: A Cross-Country Study. K. Kitching, R. Mashruwala, and M. Pevzner. The International Journal of Accounting. (2016)
Implications of Cost Behavior for Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts. M. Ciftci, R. Mashruwala, and D. Weiss. Journal of Management Accounting Research. (2016)
The Moderating Effect of Prior Sales Changes on Asymmetric Cost Behavior. R. Banker, D. Byzalov, M. Ciftci, and R. Mashruwala. Journal of Management Accounting Research. (2014)
Value Relevance of Accounting Information for Intangible-Intensive Industries and the Impact of Scale. M.Ciftci, M. Darrough, and R. Mashruwala. European Accounting Review. (2014)
The Impact of a Heterogeneous Accrual-generating Process on Empirical Accrual Model. N. Dopuch, R. Mashruwala, C. Seethamraju, and T. Zach. Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance. (2012)
The Use of Advertising Activities to Meet Earnings Benchmarks: Evidence from Monthly Data. D. Cohen, R. Mashruwala, and T. Zach. Review of Accounting Studies. (2010)
The Moderating Role of Competition in the Relationship between Nonfinancial Measures and Financial Performance. R. Banker and R. Mashruwala. Contemporary Accounting Research. (2007)
Was the Bell System a Natural Monopoly? An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis. H. Chang and R. Mashruwala. Annals of Operations Research. (2006)